Does your comic store allow you to set up a standing order? That way they reserve an issue for you as soon as it comes in and you can pick it up at your leisure without worrying about the issue being sold out. I've had my Transformer comics on standing order since 1990.



Anyway, picked up #3 today. Quite thoroughly enjoyable. A good mix of suspense with action with amusing banter between characters. I like how Ratchet continues to see everything through a scientific eye... especially with other Autobots freaking out around him about a 'monster' being aboard the ship and Ratchet clinically explaining what it is and how it works. Ratchet felt a lot like The Doctor in this issue! (only somewhat more passive )

Rodimus' daredevil stunt to kill the Sparkeater at the end was something I didn't see coming and took me by surprise. Awesomesauce. Ultra Magnus is really out of his comfort zone here with all these rogues. Seeing Cyclonus explain the war to Tailgate from a Decepticon POV was interesting; although I felt it was a bit odd for Tailgate to want to become a Decepticon considering that he only heard about the war from someone who admitted to not having lived through it himself (not a terribly reliable source)... and in Tailgate's own admission, factions no longer matter... so... <shrug> Btw I really liked the dynamic between Cyclonus and Tailgate -- especially the way Cyclonus just dropped Tailgate on the floor!

Poor Rung... the ship's model collector who always has some busting in on him when he's either moving or setting up his collection! Gotta feel for him. Microphone in his finger? A neat little G1 reference there.

The way the Sparkeater killed Shock was just... macabre. I'd just finished eating when I read this issue, and watching him vomit up his own brain was... eww... even now I feel like I wanna wretch. A nice piece of horror there. Hey... now we finally know what a Turbofox looks like! (only had to wait 28 years )

Only gripe about this issue: The language issue still plagues this ish. It makes it continually hard to accept that they're speaking to each other in Cybertronian when they're making very Anglocentric references like the whole "mnemosurgeon" thing... I just can't suspend disbelief for this and it just spoils part of the fantasy for me. It's hard enough for me to suspend disbelief everytime I see English text written on doors and that thingamajiggy in Ore's hand.

Rewind's intervention with "Shock!" was funny though. That's more clever -- it's like a fourth wall Anglocentric joke for the audience that more easily allows the audience to suspend disbelief and believe that they're still speaking to each other in Cybertronian. If they want to make more language jokes, then make them like this please.